A.Word.A.Day

A.Word.A.Day--mogul

mogul (MO-guhl) noun, also moghul or mughal

A powerful or influential person; magnate.

[After Mogul, one of the dynasty of Mongol conquerors whose rule in India
spanned from 1526 to 1857.]

"By now, you may think you know everything there is to know about Santa
Claus. However, what you don't know could fill his bottomless bag of
toys. Hardly any of the popular tales about Jolly Old St. Nick have been
updated since the 1940's. The world has changed considerably since then,
and so has Santa. Thanks largely to some disenchanted elves whose
contractual nondisclosure agreements recently expired, we now have
firsthand accounts of what it is like to work for the world's most
reclusive toy mogul."
Kevin Doughten, What Your Parents Never Told You, The New York Times,
Dec 24, 2001.

This week's theme: eponyms.

X-Bonus

Let proportion be found not only in numbers and measures, but also in
sounds, weights, times, and positions, and what ever force there is.
-Leonardo Da Vinci, painter, engineer, musician, and scientist (1452-1519)

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